![]() ![]() Bradley! Can Belial come out and play today?” And though grotesque, I’ve always thought Belial looked friendly. If you didn’t know the Biblical reference, the name sounds rather friendly: “Hi, Mr. More than that, however, I like the SOUND of the name. ![]() Also, way back when, I looked up Belial in some reference book and it said the name translated as “ungodly.” Which certainly fit the look of the creature. ![]() I mean, calling him Beelzebub would’ve just been silly. I’ve heard Belial used as a synonym for Satan, and also as one of the many fallen angels. The father, appalled by the creature and full of hatred after his wife died giving birth, named him after the devil. Yielded their Matrons to prevent worse rape. Witness the Streets of SODOM, and that night Of BELIAL, flown with insolence and wine. ![]() Of riot ascends above their loftiest Towers,ĭarkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Turns Atheist, as did ELY’S Sons, who fill’d In Temples and at Altars, when the Priest Or Altar smoak’d yet who more oft then hee Or were you inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost…? Was he, yet a metaphor for the insatiable vice of desire?īELIAL came last, than whom a Spirit more lewdįell not from Heaven, or more gross to love He’s almost analogous to the mythic Blemmyae who’s heads were in their chests. You can’t blame a guy for trying to get a little nookie… Though Belial was more a product of physiological anomaly, rather than spawn from hell nor mutant. Is it founded in the Hebrew proverb adam beli-yaal meaning ‘a worthless man’, because Belial was discarded by the doctors and his father as a non entity with no legitimatized form, also the name is based in Jewish and Christian texts referring to a demon? What tripped the wires in your head to name Duane Bradley’s brother in a wicker basket – Belial ? 29v, 194v, 195vįrank, this is a simple question that I’ve been very curious about for a long time, what is truly at the root of your choosing the name Belial for your most iconic monstrous personification of body horror in your classic film Basket Case from 1982. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. A Blemmyae and other mythic oddities- To the left a Headless creature, face in their chest yet fixed with arms and legs who inhabit the earth.īook: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo: With 25 Illustrations from a Fourteenth-century Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (New York: The Orion Press, 1958)Written and illuminated in Paris, ca. He’s cute, he’s cuddly and fits really well in a wicker picnic basket for those special occasions. The Writer/Director who brought us the body as ‘Other.’ Conjoined brother Duane Bradley’s other half, Belial, somewhat like the mythic Blemmyae portrayed in Medieval paintings and etchings. ![]()
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